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16 hours ago, BShaw20 said:

MLB The Show preview shows Ken Jr with the JROB. Did he even have one, ever? I highly doubt that.

Nope. First JrOB in MLB history was Jackie Bradley.

However, he will not wear JrOB in the game itself.

1 hour ago, slikye1 said:

Wow, if nba teams still do so, Markieff and Marcus Morris in the same team will be interesting.

They unfortunately didn't wear FNOB.

Seems we're back into the "not listing player names" phase?

15 hours ago, bucky_bleichert said:

derrick harper, magic (what's up with the ball?)

 

Is that an ABA ball???

On 2/18/2017 at 9:05 AM, C's said:

Of the past five 2Ks the only ones I've played are 2K13 and 2K16, and 2K13 definitely did not have these errors. Not on the 360 version at least.

My guess is that it was screwed up when the PS4/Xbone released, because they had to redo a bunch of textures for the new consoles.

On 2/16/2017 at 10:56 PM, neo_prankster said:

The N64 version I think had the Jets in the early-mid 90's uniforms even though they already went back to the Broadway Joe look by the time the console versions came out.

It was a direct arcade port, and the Jets were still in the old set when the arcade version came out in '97.

11 hours ago, BigEd76 said:

Also notice the Bucs and Vikings are each missing their sleeve patches.

Texture limitations. Uniforms in video games couldn't really be "accurate" until the sixth (PS2) generation.

10 hours ago, jmac11281 said:

I would guess it stopped when the divisions all had an equal number of teams. I think it was 1995, when Jacksonville and Carolina came entered the league and there were 30 teams.

Indeed. Prior to 1995, there were only four teams in the AFC Central and NFC West, so the other divisions' fifth-placers had to play each other twice to fit the schedule formula.

9 hours ago, phutmasterflex said:

But what happened when the Browns came back in 1999?

The Browns' six nondivisional games per year from 1999-01 were games the other AFC Central teams would have normally played based on previous-year finish. The missing games from the other AFC divisions were made up by adding more AFC East vs. AFC West games to the schedule, similar to the Central/West arrangement from 1970-77. (Remember, pre-2002, it was impossible to have entire divisions face each other because there were an odd number of divisions per conference.)

On 2/7/2017 at 8:28 PM, chrispw12 said:

classic Seahawks against Flying Elvis Patriots

The Seahawks and Patriots actually played twice that season, thanks to the fifth-place schedule.

54 minutes ago, Matito said:

I'll be curious to see if Fox translates these graphics to their NASCAR coverage, since that was just redone two years ago.

Two years is an eternity for graphics.

An odd case, because it wasn't intended to be used on the field:

Another rare one I found.

A lot of Bledsoe-era Patriots matchups are rare.

A Javier Lopez double feature with the Red Sox. Javy Lopez the catcher on the left, Javier Lopez the pitcher on the right.

1 hour ago, SabresRule7361 said:

That matchup looks less "wrong" than I would have expected.

20 hours ago, Walter Sobchak said:

Right team wrong uniform: Matt Ryan in the Falcons old black alternate.

I wouldn't necessarily call this the wrong uniform. No Falcons QB is primarily associated with that uni, but Vick/Ryan are both associated with the red jersey, and of course the black one follows as a "right" uniform for them.

On 1/21/2017 at 2:24 PM, FinsUp1214 said:

Man, I miss these. I miss the NBA on NBC just as much.

I miss its theme music, for what it's worth.

On 1/20/2017 at 1:10 PM, KDubK414 said:

According to the Mothership, the only Year these two uni's matched up.

 

Definitely an underrated Brewers set.

Interestingly, the 1997-99 "M" caps aren't offered at the Miller Park team store. The Motre Bame caps are on sale, but I probably had the only M cap in the park the day I was there.

2 hours ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

That specific uniform is "wrong" for any player, but not because of its quality. The other brick-Astros alts were far more "memorable" than this one.

On 1/13/2017 at 11:28 PM, johnnysama said:

The first photo is from 2000, the only matchup between the current Patriots (their first year in that style) and the pre-black Detroit Lions.

 

And this one-off occurred on Thanksgiving 2002, with both teams wearing their throwback uniforms (incidentally, this was the last season before the Detroit Lions incorporated black in their color palette).

The 2002 game wasn't a one-off. Both teams brought the throwbacks back eight years later, also on Thanksgiving.

This also means that "current Patriots vs. black-era Lions" is a hidden rare matchup, because it has never happened in Detroit in the regular season. Preseason photo from 2011:

18 hours ago, Dabbaby17 said:

Duane Starks on the Cardinals (2004)

Duane Starks on the Patriots (2005)

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/tampa-bay-buccaneers-horace-copeland-and-new-england-patriots-lawyer-picture-id110341547

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/defensiveback-lawyer-milloy-of-the-new-england-patriots-goes-after-picture-id138574898

1990s Patriots vs. pewter Buccaneers

Matt Hasselbeck. Right team, wrong uniform:

This is the best Flying Elvis-era Patriots set:

5 hours ago, SilverBullet1929 said:

I think teams can have different or modified color schemes home and away and still have one clear identity. Like the St Louis Cardinals when they would wear navy caps on the road, or the Tigers only using orange on the road. Consistency goes a long way in this I think.

The navy-capped Cardinals still had red in their color scheme, and I agree that they look better than the red-capped away set.